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Book Overview

This indispensible textbook supports life-long learning in medical and nursing school, to residency and fellowships, to precepting and community practice, and from there, into research and advocacy. Explained are the basics of child development and how parent-child communicative play and shared affect promote learning and well-being.

Provided are techniques for efficiently detecting and addressing developmental problems in busy clinical settings, i.e., by staggering the tasks of screening and surveillance over time from infancy through late adolescence. Because well-visits should also focus on addressing problems (e.g., “the worried well”) there is abundant guidance on how to work with families, promote development, deliver difficult news, monitor progress and collaborate with non-medical providers. Much attention is paid to unique populations (e.g., children in-care, families from diverse cultural backgrounds) and, to the most onerous issue in primary care: How to actually implement quality developmental-behavioral care. Work sheets and flow charts aid clinicians in planning and deploying an effective process.

Delineated are research methods for measuring child development including how to create new items for studies, ensure effective translations, standardize measures, and design quality research protocols. Options for Quality Improvement and Maintenance of Certification initiatives are described. Also specified is a range of techniques for public policy advocacy. Throughout, case examples and professional perspectives are used to illuminate content.

The book’s website offers downloadable tools for learning and teaching (e.g., observation forms, a detailed list of milestones, pre/post-tests for assessing learning) as well as tools for community practice (e.g., a list of evidence-based screening and surveillance tools, well-child visit encounter forms embracing health as well as developmental-behavioral care, two-way consent forms, live links to services, etc.). These instruments facilitate instruction and aid practicing clinicians in complying with American Academy of Pediatrics policy -- all within the time constraints of primary care.

The many contributors to this book are content experts but also practical advisors who themselves deal with real-world challenges facing families and work with graduate and under-graduate students, residents, fellows, clinicians, researchers, and advocates.In short, Identifying and Addressing Developmental-Behavioral Problems is a practical and essential handbook for all those interested in improving the development and well-being of children and their families.

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Site Content
Below is a guide to navigating the book’s content, a list of the specific web pages providing links or downloadable materials, and a description of what is available within the site for this book.

Chapter content

Chapter number/ links to web pages with supporting material:

Website Content

Early Intervention, federally mandated programs, eligibility requirements, glossary of terms in intervention, highlights of American Academy of Pediatrics policy on early detection

International approaches and how other nations promote development and supportive services

Chapter 18

How to conduct research on developmental-behavioral issues, how tests are constructed, how to write new items, translate questions into other languages and cultures, and find ideas for research projects based on unanswered questions

Covers all developmental domains, including cognitive/academic and social-emotional skills from birth through 7 years of age

We encourage your comments and suggestions about “Identifying and Addressing Developmental-Behavioral Problems: A Practical Guide for Medical and Non-medical Professionals, Trainees, Researchers and Advocates” and its website. We’d particularly like to receive descriptions of effective strategies for implementing developmental-behavioral screening and surveillance in practices. With your permission we will post these on the website for this book. Feel free to send us messages through this link: Contact Us